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Health status before and mortality after hip fracture

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  • Katelaris, A.G.
  • Cumming, R.G.

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A cohort study was done to determine the direct impact of hip fracture on mortality in older people. Survival was compared between 211 hip fracture patients from a defined area and 201 non-hip fracture control subjects randomly selected from the same area. The mortality rate 1 year after hip fracture was 21.7% 1-year mortality in the comparison group was 4.7%. The crude hazard ratio for hip fracture and mortality was 4.0 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.2, 7.4); adjusting for multiple health related variables reduced it to 3.3 (95% CI = 1.7, 6.5). This finding suggests that the observed excess mortality after hip fracture is not explained by poor prefracture health status.

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  • Katelaris, A.G. & Cumming, R.G., 1996. "Health status before and mortality after hip fracture," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 86(4), pages 557-560.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1996:86:4:557-560_1
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    1. Manfred Wildner & Andreas Markuzzi & Waldtraut Casper & Karl Bergmann, 1998. "Disparitäten der Krankenhaus-Fatalität nach proximalen Femurfrakturen in der DDR 1989," International Journal of Public Health, Springer;Swiss School of Public Health (SSPH+), vol. 43(2), pages 80-89, March.

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